Concert featuring saxophonist, Phil Pierick

Name: Concert featuring saxophonist, Phil Pierick
Start: 2025-10-20T12:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-10-20T12:30:00-05:00
Location: 1509 Ridge Ave, Evanston, IL, United States, Illinois 60201

Schedule

Mon Oct 20 2025 at 12:00 pm to 12:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

1509 Ridge Ave, Evanston, IL, United States, Illinois 60201 | Evanston, IL

Join us on Monday, October 20, 2025, at 12pm (Noon) for a concert featuring saxophonist, Dr. Phillip Pierick. This is Phillip’s second appearance in our concert series, and we know it will be a treat! The concert is free and open to the public, and an offering will be collected with 50%
going to the performer and the other half supporting St. Mark’s Piano and Organ Fund.. For more information, please get in touch with Westley at [email protected].
Details: St. Mark’s Episcopal Church (1509 Ridge Ave, Evanston). Parking is limited to street parking, but plenty is within walking distance.
Meet the performer:
Classically trained and experimentally minded, Chicago-based saxophonist, improviser, composer, singer, and educator Phil Pierick has been called “the Swiss Army knife of saxophonists.” Though equally at home performing music spanning the past five centuries, he is an emphatic advocate for new music and has commissioned more than 35 new works and presented over 60 premieres. I CARE IF YOU LISTEN describes his duo Ogni Suono's album SaxoVoce as “a tour de force of new possibilities for saxophone and voice.” He has appeared as a concerto soloist with the Eastman Wind Ensemble, the Slovenian Armed Forces Band, and MIT (Taiwan) among others. Phil has taught at the Eastman School of Music, the University of Illinois, Butler University, the College of Wooster, and as a guest at more than 40 universities and conferences around the world.
The only prizewinner at both the Jean-Marie Londeix and ISSAC International Saxophone Competitions, Phil studied at Eastman School of Music (DMA), the University of Illinois (MM, BM), and in Vienna (Fulbright Scholar) and Paris (Beebe Scholar). His primary teachers were Debra Richtmeyer, Jean-Michel Goury, Lars Mlekusch, and Chien-Kwan Lin. Phil is a Vandoren Performing Artist. More info at PhilPierick.com.